Steve Rubin

srubin at cs.berkeley.edu

I am a fourth-year CS Ph.D. student at Berkeley, where I am currently
finishing up my dissertation. In 2011, I graduated from Williams
College where I majored in both Computer Science and
Mathematics. I'm advised by Maneesh Agrawala.

Research

I am broadly interested in HCI, music, media editing, information
visualization, and design. In my time at Berkeley, I have worked on
audio editing interfaces, crowdsourcing graphical perception studies,
bribe-reporting, a cup that knows what you're drinking, and chart-data
extraction.

Finalist (top 5) in the Student Research Competition. This work was
done during the Williams College Summer Science Research Program with
Duane Bailey in 2008.

Software

I've written a lot of software for my research. I'm hoping to
eventually release a lot of this code. Here's what I've released so
far:

speecheditor — a web app for editing and adding musical scores to audio stories. Instead of editing speech using waveforms, the speecheditor allows you to edit audio with text, like a word processor. Likewise, it allows users to easily loop musical tracks and add musical underlays à la This American Life. The speecheditor is described in detail in our paper, "Content-based Tools for Editing Audio Stories."

radiotool — a python
library that aims to make it easy to create audio by piecing
together bits of other audio files. This library was originally
written to enable my research in audio editing user interfaces, but
perhaps someone else might find it useful.